root-cause-investigator
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Find and PROVE the true root cause of a production bug or manual-test failure in a legacy system — without proposing a fix until the cause is proven. Use this whenever something is wrong in a live/production/legacy system and the real cause isn't obvious: triggers on "there's a bug in production", "this fails in the live app", "manual testing turned up a failure", "users are seeing X but I don't know why", "intermittent error in prod", or "I need to find the real cause before touching anything". It follows a strict order — reliably reproduce → instrument and observe the actual data flow → trace the causal chain backward to separate symptom from true cause → prove the cause by toggling it → write a concise root-cause record — then HALTS for human confirmation of the diagnosis. It diagnoses only; surgical-fixer applies the fix. Prefer this over the greenfield debugger whenever the system is in production / legacy and understanding the cause matters more than a quick patch.
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- khadir-syed/k_ai-agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 26, 2026
- artaasd95/SLM-skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 26, 2026
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- khadir-syed/k_ai-agent-skills★ 19same name
- artaasd95/SLM-skills★ 0same name
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